Actor Growth

Guess everyone in the Eastern Time Zone is going to have New Years in just a short while. Still plenty of time here for people living on the West Coast. Next year should be a lot of fun. It also reminds me on how close the Olympics is coming to Vancouver for 2010.

Hope everyone has a great New Years!

I just realized that in 2009 there is going to be a minimum of at least two videos that are going to be distributed on the web that I participated in. This actually interests me a lot as I wonder how this will affect me as a performer.

Usually a lot of web based video gets redistributed in poor low quality conditions which doesn’t exactly make the people involved look too good. Then again, I guess with the Internet it can turn out to be a good thing too where if it is done well you can get a lot of recognition for it.

On top of the fact that I plan to launch my website next year, that will be a lot of online presence for me and so I need to make sure that I manage it effectively. This is something that I really should speak to my new agent about too once that is settled. Fortunately I grew up using the Internet, so this isn’t exactly going to be a scary thing.

With only a few days left until new years that means having to do those taxes again. Like most people I find these things a little repetitive, so I usually end up just buying a software to do everything digital to avoid all that paper work.

I guess a benefit about being an actor too is that you are considered as a self employed individual and can hence write off items as expenses. Usually in a business this is when people would scramble to buy things as a way to write things off as an expense, but for me I can’t see anything that I really need to purchase.

Depending on how busy and active I get next year I’ll probably having a bigger need for things like an expensive data phone.

I got an e-mail today in regards to a short film I acted in awhile back called The Seven. This was actually intended to be a two episode web release. It’s actually the first film I have ever down too where the film was going to be specifically released on the Internet.

As of now all they have is the trailer and apparently they are making two completely different cuts with one following the original script and the other is not. This was done by film students, so the expectation isn’t extremely high I guess generally speaking. One thing that was interesting is that this is the first student film I saw that used traditional movie credits in the trailer as you can see here:

I had fun working on this film though and hope to get to see the final cut as maybe I’ll even use some of it for my reel.

It seems that I received a message from a friend who was telling me that he will get in touch with me in the New Years about a mini film project that I agreed to participate in. The thing is, this has been up in the air for a couple of months already and I still haven’t received the script for it.

He is an aspiring writer/director and so this will mainly be a practice project for experience I guess you can say. I’m getting a little worried about the procrastination though as I know many times when it comes to doing your own stuff you can easily get too relaxed with no set deadlines.

This project is suppose to involve a little bit of fighting too, so I’m personally interested in seeing how it ends up.

So the film industry is still on a break and today is the day for post Christmas shopping sales where stores put up crazy prices to try and get rid of old inventory. There are also good deals on new stuff too.

What was interesting was that during the day at a busy mall the rapid transit system was out of commission, due to the snow I assume. Therefore, thousands of people were stuck at the mall and were forced to take buses. Just look at this pile up at the bus terminal:

There definitely wasn’t enough buses for this incident. This reminds me a lot when working in film too as have a reliable form of transportation to get on and off set is usually a requirement for any type of work. Not only for situations like these, but often film work can start at the wee early mornings or end very late where public transportation is unavailable.

Therefore, you need to establish all of your options just incase something like this happens.